This is the first of two stories about wineries in Chateauneuf Du Pape visited by the author this year in France. CHATEAUNEUF DU PAPE, FRANCE - The remains of a large, stone fortress loom high over ...

Châteauneuf-du-Pape is the most famous wine in the southern Rhône Valley. Here, in one of the hottest wine regions in France, you get wines with wonderfully warm and spicy aromas such as cinnamon, ...

Before the weather turns into a full-blast heat wave - not that it won't change back in a week or so - I thought it was a good time to take another look at another part of the Rhone region of France ...

I’ve often wondered how a winemaker decides on the blend of grapes to use. The grapes are different each year, so there is no specific formula to follow. To find out, I spend an afternoon in Hong Kong ...

When I hear a wine labeled "obscure" and "exotic," I'm by turns intrigued and repelled. Intrigued because it's always interesting to taste something I've never tasted before. Repelled because the wine ...

Châteauneuf-du-Pape is a village located in the southern Rhone Valley, in France. The name, which means "the pope's new castle", refers to the chateau, completed in 1333, that was built just outside ...

Producers in the southern Rhône Valley are dialing back the jammy flavors in this red wine, which veered for so long into fruit-bomb territory. By Eric Asimov Of the many wonderful transformations ...